What Ruggero spoke about.

22

Oct

2024

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General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, Commissioner, I have heard some enthusiastic tones in describing both the proposal from the Commission and the compromise reached in committee work. And I do not want to think, according to the rhetoric heard, that this is the first budget of the new legislature, because a legislature that has opened with a request for greater competitiveness and inves…

9

Oct

2024

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Urgent need to revise the Medical Devices Regulation (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, why this debate? Because a large number of the groups in this Parliament feel that there is an urgent need to review the regulation of medical devices. I, Commissioner, give you just one piece of information to understand a rule that is not working and is causing delays: 15 900 applications for new medical devices were filed at the European Patent …

9

Oct

2024

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Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate)

(IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President of the Commission, there is a strong feeling, also in the light of some of the speeches in this debate, that we have not fully understood how gigantic the phenomenon of drug trafficking is, that we have not fully understood how much force there is in the criminal organisations that deal with the management of the distribution centres in…

7

Oct

2024

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The extreme wildfires in Southern Europe, in particular Portugal and Greece and the need for further EU climate action on adaptation and mitigation (debate)

Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the numbers and requirements of prevention policies are certainly indispensable, especially for all the countries of the Mediterranean basin. But you rightly referred to the investments that need to grow and the need to upgrade the firefighting fleet. I can't hide the fact that there are some doubts. There is concern that the 600 million made av…

19

Sep

2024

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Droughts and extreme weather events as a threat to local communities and EU agriculture in times of climate change (debate)

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this session opened with a tribute to the countries affected by the recent floods in the East and it is tonight, in Italy, still in Emilia Romagna, that a flood has already led to over 1 000 displaced persons. Drought is the reciprocal of the same phenomenon. There is an urgent need to strengthen the European civil protection apparatus and reform t…